BrianFagioli quotes BetaNews: On August 24 and 25, the Ubuntu Desktop team will be holding a “Fit and Finish Sprint,” where they will aggressively test GNOME. Canonical is also asking the Ubuntu community to help with this process. In other words, you might be able to assist with making Artful Aardvark even better.

What makes this particularly cool, however, is that Canonical will be selecting some community members to visit its London office on August 24 between 4 pm and 9 pm. “Over the two days we’ll be scrutinizing the new GNOME Shell desktop experience, looking for anything jarring/glitchy or out of place,” says Alan Pope, Community Manager. “We’ll be working on the GTK, GDM and desktop theme alike, to fix inconsistencies, performance, behavioral or visual issues. We’ll also be looking at the default key bindings, panel color schemes and anything else we discover along the way.”